Abstract
The rapid adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) has encouraged the integration of new connected devices such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the ubiquitous network. UAVs promise a pragmatic solution to the limitations of existing terrestrial IoT infrastructure as well as bring new means of delivering IoT services through a wide range of applications. Owning to their potential, UAVs are expected to soon dominate the low-altitude airspace over populated cities. This introduces new research challenges such as the safe management of UAVs operation under high traffic demands. This paper proposes a novel way of structuring the uncontrolled, low-altitude airspace, with the aim of addressing the complex problem of UAV traffic management at an abstract level. The work, hence, introduces a model of the airspace as a weighted multilayer network of nodes and airways and presents a set of experimental simulation results using three UAV traffic management heuristics.
Highlights
Characterised as a mega-network of heterogeneous technologies and standards, Internet of Things (IoT), broadly refers to a network of uniquely addressable, interconnected objects, built on standard communication protocols whose point of convergence is the internet [1]
One promising category of devices that recently found its way into IoT, is Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
This work builds on the foundations laid in our previous work [22] where we addressed the aforementioned, complex problem of UAV traffic management at an abstract level by proposing a structure for the uncontrolled low-altitude airspace; presented as a weighted multilayer network of nodes and airways
Summary
Characterised as a mega-network of heterogeneous technologies and standards, Internet of Things (IoT), broadly refers to a network of uniquely addressable, interconnected objects, built on standard communication protocols whose point of convergence is the internet [1]. IoT lies in connecting, both, virtual and physical everyday objects, enabling a wide array of services that were otherwise deemed unfeasible to be realised. The widespread of IoT has, motivated the advancement in information communication technologies, catalysing the development and integration of new devices to this ubiquitous network. One promising category of devices that recently found its way into IoT, is Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Promising new means of efficiently collecting and transmitting data as smart terminal devices capable of interacting with the physical world for a magnitude of IoT applications. Some predominant examples include smart agriculture [2,3], smart logistics [4], smart healthcare [5] and monitoring, surveillance and disaster management [6,7,8,9]
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